From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 15 09:42:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18491 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:42:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from srv01.bigwheel.net (srv01.bigwheel.net [208.197.88.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18482 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:42:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doug@srv01.bigwheel.net) Received: (from doug@localhost) by srv01.bigwheel.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA25774; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810151641.JAA25774@srv01.bigwheel.net> To: dan@dpcsys.com From: Doug Jolley Subject: Re: qpopper cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Doug Jolley wrote: > As a precaution, I have two hard drives. Each drive contains > a bootable root file system, a /var filesystem, and a /usr > filesystem. At night a cron job updates files on the secondary > drive from the primary drive. The system is a mail server > running qpopper. I have discovered that when I mount the root > filesystem from the secondary drive and the /var and /usr > filesystems from the primary drive Eudora (when running on a > workstation) complains that it can't open the temp file. > The problem seems to be related to the /var filesystem > because it goes away when I mount the /var filesystem from > the secondary drive instead of the primary. Does anyone > know what temp file Eudora could be talking about. Thanks >/var/mail/.username Oh. Thanks a batch. >What steps are you using when mounting drives in the scenario >that doesn't work? Not to paraphrase any politicians or anything; but, I'm really glad you asked me that question. I was doing the change in mounting by changing the /etc/fstab file and re-booting. That was beacause, much to my surprise, I found that I couldn't umount either the /var or /usr file systems (or both, I don't remember). I would get a "device busy" error. I usually associate that particular error with being logged into the filesystem that I'm trying to umount; but, I wasn't. I was logged into the / filesystem. What I wanted to do was to interactively umount the existing /var and /usr filesystems and then interactively mount the corresponding file systems from the primary drive. I'd love to know why I couldn't umount those file systems. Thanks for the help. ... doug _____________________________________________________________________ Doug Jolley mailto://doug@footech.com http://www.footech.com Don't bogart that file, my friend. Net it over to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message